I'm trying to restore messages from before a migration and want to use our backups to restore messages lost during a mailbox migration. What is the location on the exchange server that would of stored these messages? If I can find that could I input them into a .pst file?

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Usually they are in the x:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\MDBDATA folder, (but they can be redirected to any folder) where x is your data drive. The priv.edb can be manipulated, but I don't know of any freeware to do it. The best I've seen is Quest's Recovery Manager for Exchange. It can extract messages from an offline .EDB file and put them in a .PST. If I remember correctly, it may even be able to put them directly into the user's new mailbox, not sure on that one though. It's been a while since I've needed to use it. http://www.quest.com/recovery-manager-for-exchange